Adobe put Trojan horse in Acrobat.

[bob () HAL EMPNET COM (Bob Zoller)]

FYI for anyone that has Microsoft machines on your network..
--Bob

Bob Zoller
Systems Engineer

Empire Net, Inc.
541-317-3437 x209
http://www.empnet.com/


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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 07:41:06 -0600
From: "Wamsley, James R" <WamslJR () louisville stortek com>
To: "'firewall-wizards () nfr com'" <firewall-wizards () nfr net>,
     "'ntbugtraq () listserv ntbugtraq com'"
<ntbugtraq () listserv ntbugtraq com>
Cc: "Samos, Randy B." <samos () anubis network com>
Subject: Adobe put Trojan horse in Acrobat.

We recently found an alarming problem with Adobe's pre-release of
Acrobat
4.0,  When one of our users downloaded and installed the pre-release,
McAfee, using data definitions 4.0.4017 stated that one file net bus
pro.dr
contained a virus and could not be removed.  Of course we investigated
and
see NetBus there.  The user opened a problem report with Adobe.  They
acknowledge that NetBus Pro is part of the package, but 'have not been
reported to cause problems with anyone's computer at this time.'

I personally find this absolutely reprehensible that they would
purposely
put 'remote administration and spy software' in a package that will be
widely distributed around the world.  That is all any of us need is the
have
a lot of users install this, and the nefarious users obtain the whole
package and start whacking desktops whenever they choose.

Comments?


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